Hacking official accounts of prominent organizations or personalities is not a new way of scamming people across the globe. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts of the British Army were all compromised for almost four hours on Sunday by hackers advertising fake non-fungible token (NFT) collections and cryptocurrency scams. United Kingdom’s
Crema Finance immediately halted its liquidity services after discovering the breach. Some crypto community members believe the hacker stole 90% of entire liquidity. Solana-based liquidity protocol Crema Finance has stated that its services have been temporarily suspended due to an exploit that has drained a significant but unknown quantity of
Ankr under serious hack attacks. Hackers target Polygon and Fantom users. New specific link for accessing opened by Ankr. The Ankr (ANKR), a Web3 structure involving various multi-chain and cross-chain links, is currently under serious hack attacks. In spite of the hack, the official Twitter page of Ankr, posted a
Crypto hacks and scams on the rise every month. Major anomalies are ethical hacks upon the parent blockchains. Rug Pull and Discord Hack accounts to be the major attack modes. Horrible is the entire crypto industry and so devastating was the month of June 2022. The overall market cap has
The OP Foundation is in the process of rescuing the 1 million OP delivered to Buterin. The corporation issued 20 million OP to the incorrect blockchain address. Optimism (OP) tokens that were stolen by a hacker last week have been returned, 17 million of them. The Optimism Collective DAO was
The L1 multisig contract had already been deployed to the identical address on L2. A bad actor was able to take possession of the contract on the L2. The Optimism layer-2 scaling solution’s positive phase was shattered when a smart contract vulnerability resulted in the loss of 20 million OP
Pwning.eth, a white hat hacker, found and alerted Aurora to a vulnerability. The $10 million prize for the Solana bridge Wormhole warranted more attention. After helping identify a vulnerability, Aurora, a blockchain bridge project, gave out the second-largest award in crypto history. Pwning.eth, a white hat hacker, found and alerted
Rari Fuse pool which has a five-month merger with Fei Protocol has faced an attack of $80 million by the hackers. This came to light when the Fei protocol made the following tweet on 04/30/2022. While, according to Lei Wu, Chief Technical Officer of Blocksec, 5400 ETH has already been
It’s a merry-go-round when it comes to crypto based cyber crimes and hacks. On one side the security based technologies are on a constant development and research and bringing out new advanced security systems for the blockchains. On the other hand, the dark world of hacks and cyber crimes profusely
After a hacking incident, Bitcoin’s volatility spiked on the sixth day. A group from Finland’s University of Vaasa is looking into the influence. There has been an increase in cryptocurrency theft and fraud. Two people were detained last month for allegedly stealing crypto. Bitfinex’s platform had 4.5 billion dollars worth
